Welcome to The Butcher Blog: Our Meat Manifesto

This is a meat appreciation blog, about meat in all of its various incarnations—filet to gristle—and in all of its glory. It’s about the supreme cut, your local butcher, that rare gem of a restaurant with the perfect burger, the occasional tip or recipe, the politics of meat, grill culture, butchery and all of its associated issues and concerns—in short, if it’s made of meat, we’ll eat it, think about eating it and write about thinking about eating it.

And to those who might be confused, well, we don’t pretend to know how you should you live your lives, but frankly, we just don’t understand how someone could voluntarily choose not to eat meat. We are not crusaders; we just think that a steak should never make someone feel guilty. We love meat. Simple as that. If you don’t feel the same way, please go someplace else.

Our culture is at the precipice of something very dangerous. And from where we sit, perched high up in our blogoshpere, we have a clear view. We look over the plains and mountains and valleys and see a homogenized America. A pasteurized country, full of gated communities, shopping malls, minivans, Happy Meals, Hot Pockets and Lunchables. Our meat is pre-masticated and fed to us the way a mother bird nourishes her chicks. It’s the country of Whoppers and Big Macs. These foods have as much to do with real beef as Us Weekly has to do with Herman Melville. The nation has blurred, become soft, domesticated and tame. It’s been lost to corporate cookie-cutter chains serving cheeseburger pizzas and pepperoni that shouldn’t be fit for Snausages dog treats. Well, we’re here to take it back. —The Editors

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